Megaselia renwickorum, Hartop, Emily A., Brown, Brian V. & Disney, R. Henry L., 2015

Hartop, Emily A., Brown, Brian V. & Disney, R. Henry L., 2015, Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA), Zootaxa 3941 (4), pp. 451-484 : 470

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0282A923-893A-45BC-941A-6CDECBE36618

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6093907

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD8784-FFAA-FFF5-C5FA-FC53FEE4F9B2

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Plazi

scientific name

Megaselia renwickorum
status

sp. nov.

Megaselia renwickorum View in CoL new species ( Figs. 24 View FIGURES 19 – 27 , 56 View FIGURES 53 – 62 , 86 View FIGURES 81 – 86 , 117 View FIGURES 109 – 124 )

Diagnosis. Male. In the group V key of Borgmeier (1964) M. renwickorum keys to couplet 6, where the distinctive shape of the left side of the epandrium ( Fig. 86 View FIGURES 81 – 86 ) and 10+ hairs on the ventrally directed cerci immediate distinguish it from both M. monochaeta Borgmeier and M. subnudifemur Borgmeier.

Description. See Table 6.

Distribution. Los Angeles, California ( USA).

Etymology. Named in honor of the Renwick family, hosts of BioSCAN site 5.

Biology. Unknown.

Holotype. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Highland Park, 1–8.II.2014, Franco, Malaise trap ( LACM 329820).

Paratypes. ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Los Feliz, 1–8.II.2014, Koch, Malaise trap ( LACM 329821). ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Gardena, 28.VI.2014 – 5.VII.2014, Defibaugh, Malaise trap ( LACM 329822). ♂, USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Mid-City, 28.XII.2013 – 4.I.2014, Oxborough, Malaise trap ( CUMZ).

Additional Material Examined. USA: CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles: Silverlake, Los Feliz, Mid-City, Glendale, Gardena, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, Mount Washington, 17 ♂, I–V.2014, Malaise traps ( LACM, MCZC, USNM).

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

CUMZ

Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Megaselia

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